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Machiavellian on 07 November 2016
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mrstickball said:
Machiavellian said:

No I am not being disingenuous.  Obama being the main and primary reason the ACA has received a lot of flak and resistance from Republicans is based on how they have tried to first make him a one term president and when losing that have tried to make him a bad president by doing nothing.  There are countless examples where Republicans have introduced bills and where they have then reverse their vote because Obama approved it.  If it made Obama look good no matter how many Americans it helped, Republicans would vote against it.

As for the ACA, a good deal of the ACA is actually from Republicans including the Mit Romey plan he tried to introduce during his run for the presidency.  The ACA is actually a Republican ideal not Democrat.  Hell, most of the Republicans during the time the Bill was introduced were supported and passed the Bill.  The part of the bill that require all Americans to have insurance is a Republican suggesting to fund the bill.  The only real, issue that Republican did not like about the bill that passed from the senate revision is on funding abortion.

Ah yes, lets blame the Republicans for a bill that none of them voted for. Who voted for the ACA? The Democrats. Who signed it into law? A Democrat president. There was no "Compromise" on the bill. The Republicans didn't compromise to achieve the bill - the Democrats had a majority and put it into law. 

Trying to pass this off as their fault is insane.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act

It passed 219-212. Zero Republicans voted for it. 

DId you not read what I wrote.  The house voted for the ACA without the funding for abortion.  The senate voted for their revised version of the ACA which had the funding for abortion.  The only thing that was changed within the house version and the senate version was the funding of abortion.  Everything else is the same which was something lead by republicans not democrates.  You need to look at the whole story for the ACA not just the revised version.

For clarity, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which is the post you provided is the Senate revised version.  Here is the House version and what was brought up by Republicans and signed by Republicans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordable_Health_Care_for_America_Act